eClinicalWorks Blog
- 14 June, 2022
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Disease Explorer: Effectiveness Through Cohorts
What would you do if you found yourself facing a complex and seemingly insoluble problem that might well be a matter of life and death? You might do what the Romans did — use a cohort-based system.
Continue Reading- 8 June, 2022
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A Behavioral Health Module That Behaves Like One
A Fortune Business Insights report estimates that the market for Behavioral Health grew by 11.3% in 2020, driven in large part by societal stresses from the COVID-19 pandemic. From $77.6 billion in 2021, the report projects spending on Behavioral Health will reach $99.4 billion by 2028.
Continue Reading- 17 May, 2022
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The Best of Healthcare IT in the Heart of America
Indiana likes to style itself “The Crossroads of America,” and for better than half its history, Witham Memorial Hospital — now part of the Witham Health Services system — has been serving residents who live just north of the capital city of Indianapolis.
Continue Reading- 12 May, 2022
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HEDIS: Completing the Picture of Patients’ Health
Last month we discussed the importance of three letters in a discussion of how Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding helps calculate risk, predict expenditures, and determine reimbursements. This month, we look at five letters — HEDIS® — that complement HCC.
Continue Reading- 5 May, 2022
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How eClinicalWorks RCM Service Boosts Efficiency
When the word rightsize entered the English language about 1985, employees in many industries soon learned that when the boss started using that word, they were just looking for a gentler way to say downsize. In short, it was time to look for a new job.
Continue Reading- 27 April, 2022
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Who Are the 29 Million Americans Who Use Health Centers?
According to the 2022 Chartbook from the National Association of Community Health Centers, more than 29 million Americans rely upon community health centers as their primary source of healthcare.
Continue Reading- 13 April, 2022
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HCC: More than Just Letters, They Are Key to Coding and Care
Remember eating alphabet soup as a child and gathering those tiny letters made from pasta to spell your name? Well, getting the right letters together still matters, and in the healthcare world, three letters to pay close attention to are HCC.
Continue Reading- 25 March, 2022
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HIMSS22 Outlines Opportunities in Healthcare
Time travel is still the stuff of science fiction, but after two years of a global pandemic, attending a live healthcare conference sure felt like a paradigm shift. In some ways, the 2022 HIMSS Annual Global Health Conference & Exhibition, held in Orlando in mid-March, felt like early 2020, with in-person conversations, presentations, and networking.
Continue Reading- 17 March, 2022
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The First Step: Patient-Centered Medical Home
Just as no building can long endure without a strong foundation, medical practices that hope to grow and thrive in an age of value-based healthcare need to build upon fundamentals.
Continue Reading- 4 March, 2022
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3 Ways that healow Pay Helped a Growing Primary Care Practice
When you’re a smaller medical practice, every edge counts toward success. During the heart of the pandemic, providers at Innova Primary Care, a seven-provider practice serving over 4,700 patients in Huntsville, Alabama, used eClinicalWorks® and healow® solutions to grow their practice.
Continue Reading- 25 February, 2022
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The Network EHR, PRISMA, and Beyond
In the mid-1980s, computer science pioneer John Gage coined the phrase “the network is the computer” to describe the revolutionary work at Sun Microsystems. Some 40 years later, eClinicalWorks® is giving Gage’s phrase a twist as we continue to reimagine healthcare IT.
Continue Reading- 17 February, 2022
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Defense Matters: Keeping Remote Medicine Safe
If you saw the end of Super Bowl LVI, you know that defense matters. With less than a minute to play, Rams’ star defensive tackle Aaron Donald barreled past two Cincinnati Bengals and spun quarterback Joe Burrow to the turf, sealing his team’s 23-20 victory.
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